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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

thesolarcentre.co.uk

Solar Lights & Solar Lighting from Solar Centre

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

123 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

373 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesolarcentre.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 123 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thesolarcentre.co.uk performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,420 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.188

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesolarcentre.co.uk

123 ms

www.thesolarcentre.co.uk

157 ms

font-awesome.css

43 ms

css

59 ms

component.css

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Thesolarcentre.co.uk, 4% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.sitesearch360.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Chat.system.gnatta.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 216.2 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

815.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thesolarcentre.co.uk main page is 1.0 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 462.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 165.6 kB

  • Original 207.2 kB
  • After minification 207.1 kB
  • After compression 41.6 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 165.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 389 B

  • Original 326.3 kB
  • After minification 325.9 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. The Solar Centre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 50.2 kB

  • Original 462.9 kB
  • After minification 461.4 kB
  • After compression 412.7 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 50.2 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 113 B

  • Original 35.5 kB
  • After minification 35.5 kB
  • After compression 35.4 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Thesolarcentre.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (57%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Solar Centre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thesolarcentre.co.uk

thesolarcentre.co.uk

123 ms

www.thesolarcentre.co.uk

www.thesolarcentre.co.uk

157 ms

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font-awesome.css

43 ms

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59 ms

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41 ms

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36 ms

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43 ms

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62 ms

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69 ms

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38 ms

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56 ms

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143 ms

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134 ms

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49 ms

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48 ms

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47 ms

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139 ms

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buttons_2021.css

21 ms

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89 ms

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gtm.js

159 ms

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73 ms

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89 ms

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53 ms

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52 ms

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51 ms

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52 ms

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51 ms

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73 ms

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73 ms

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57 ms

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73 ms

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75 ms

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76 ms

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76 ms

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91 ms

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92 ms

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89 ms

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91 ms

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91 ms

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93 ms

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94 ms

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93 ms

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96 ms

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93 ms

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95 ms

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132 ms

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134 ms

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135 ms

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133 ms

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67 ms

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62 ms

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209 ms

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18 ms

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32 ms

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22 ms

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30 ms

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adsct

111 ms

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114 ms

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collect

12 ms

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141 ms

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jquery.min.js

23 ms

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16 ms

jquery.dlmenu.js

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14 ms

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2089.js

19 ms

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bootstrap.min.js

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12 ms

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42 ms

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15 ms

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12 ms

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82 ms

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15 ms

Accessibility Review

thesolarcentre.co.uk accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

thesolarcentre.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thesolarcentre.co.uk SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thesolarcentre.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Thesolarcentre.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

thesolarcentre.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Solar Centre. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: